Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

Researchers recently uncovered a massive ancient Mayan city, nestled below the dense rainforests of northern Guatemala, an ...

Ancient India had read the Earth and stars together, as a single text. It wrote its agricultural calendar in seasons, constellations and the right timing, not in spreadsheets.

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By the seventh century, Mayan political organization had changed significantly. Copan had grown to as many as 25,000 residents, and agricultural technologies also changed to keep up.

Archaeologists working in Guatemala’s Petén jungle have discovered three ancient Mayan cities, the country’s Ministry of Culture and Sports announced in a statement. The cities, arranged in a ...

In a rare reversal, archaeologists have determined that a Maya book written almost 900 years ago is genuine—after decades of believing it was fake. The Grolier Codex was so named because it was ...

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis ...

Archaeology 3 ancient Maya cities discovered in Guatemala, 1 with an 'astronomical complex' likely used for predicting solstices News By Owen Jarus published 5 June 2025 ...

The ancient Maya civilization is known for its innovation: math, astronomy, calendars, written language, agriculture—you name it, and the people living during the Classic Maya period probably ...

Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world would end all based on this: the Mayan calendar. Well, it’s been more than a decade since ...